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Long night? Winter solstice Friday Dec. 21

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Friday, December 21, 2012

If the North Pole were your head and the South Pole your feet, today your head would be too cold and your feet too warm.   That's a metaphor for the axial tilt of the earth on this day, with all of us north of the equator experiencing our shortest winter day and everyone south the longest summer day.

On this day you will have your longest noon shadow of the year. Assuming any sun comes out at all today.  After today daylight in our hemisphere increases faster the farther north you are.

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The guy who taught me everything I know - my brother - just turned 70!

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Note: This was originally posted on The Blufton Icon (Ada's sister publication) www.blufftonicon.com. We thought that anyone whose brother has turned 70 may appreciate this.

Sorry, can’t recall my first-ever meeting with Abraham Rudolf Steiner. Probably because of a focus on the larger question: “How did I get here?”

I do know it was Nov. 9, 1949. Thanks to my baby book, the roll of visitors on my first day in Bluffton includes the name “A.R.” Steiner.

He was 7; I had yet to experience my first-ever sundown.

A.R.  claims he can’t remember our first meeting either, so, I don’t feel that bad.

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The Holy Family

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus are on their way to Egypt to escape Harod. This Christmas figurine is part of the Winter Wonderland light show at the Ada Park.

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English Chapel bell will ring 26 times on Friday - in solidarity with churches in Connecticut

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

The West Ohio Conference of The United Methodist Church has requested that all churches within the conference ring their bells 26 times at 9:30 a.m. on Friday, Dec. 21, in memory of the victims who lost their lives at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. last Friday. 

This will be happening in solidarity with the churches of Connecticut, which will all be ringing their bells at that same time. 

The English Chapel at ONU will be participating in this observance.

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ONU Philomathean Society

Posted by Fred Steiner on Thursday, December 20, 2012

Here's an undated photograph of the Ohio Northern University literary society, The Philomatheans. From the collection of Leland Crouse.

CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

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No. 15 women's basketball tops Otterbein 71-43 for ninth straight victory

Posted by Reema Bazzy on Wednesday, December 19, 2012

-Four players scored in double figures as the No. 15 Ohio Northern women's basketball team defeated Otterbein by a 71-43 score at the Rike Center on Wednesday night.

With the win, the Polar Bears improve to 10-1 and remain a perfect in OAC play at 5-0, while the Cardinals fall to 6-3, 2-2.

Senior Morgan Dumbaugh led Northern with 13 points.

Junior Cenzie Yoder and freshman Brooke Espenschied each scored 12, while senior Joannna Snyder chipped in with 11.

The Polar Bears had a lead for the majority of the first half and found themselves ahead 31-23 with 34 seconds left in the first half.

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